Susannah Heschel is a professor of Jewish studies at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. She teaches courses in contemporary Jewish life and history and is an expert on the Holocaust and on Jewish feminism.

Jay Geller is an associate professor of modern Jewish culture and religious studies at the divinity school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He has written on atheism and modern Judaism. He is also an expert on Judiams and modernity and the Holocaust on film and in literature.

Björn Krondorfer is a professor of religious studies at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Ariz. He is an expert on Western religious traditions and has particular interests in cultural studies, Holocaust studies, and gender studies. He is also an expert on madonna images in both religion and popular culture.